Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
GENERAL LOGAN.
From the N. 7. Herald

The news of the unexpected death OF
Gen. Logan will startle the country.
He was still a comparatively young
man-born in 1926; was apparently q
man of strong constitution and gener-
ally good health, and his illness did not
seem at first to be of q serious charac-
ter. He had been for some years a
sufferer from rheumatism, and it was
rheumatic fever to which he sue
cumbed.
He had lived a stirring and eventful
life. He was adjutant of al Illinois
regiment in the Mexican war almost
before he was of age, and from the
time he was twenty six, when, as a
young lawyer he was chosen prosecu-
ting attorney of a judicial district, he
was scarcely Y e out of public lite,
either in his state, in the army or in
one or the other houses of congress,
By the time he was thirty he had be-
come SO prominent q figure in the pol
itics of his state that he vas made a
presidential elector on the Buchanan
ticket, and in November, 1858, he was
elected to congress. He served in that
and the following congresses, and
"uCu, III LILO ouullu0l VI 4CO1 #hI
broke out, he resigned his seat, at the
extra session, and entered the war as
colonel of an Illinois regiment. His
career in the war was conspicuous and
most honorable, and after the war he
was twice reelected to the house of
representatives and thereafter to the
senate.
Logan was by nature a Fighter"
Grant had a high opinion of him as a
corps commander, and that, having
only a common school education and
no knowledge at all of the art of war,
he should have risen and deserved to
rise from the colonelcy of a regiment
10 the command OF Id army corps, and
becone at rusted lieutenant of Grant,
shows remarkable capacity in him.
err" Before the war broke out he was
d Douglas democrat, and, like Doug
las, held that the Union Was to be
maintained, slavery or no slavery. He
would have condoned slavery if the
shareholders had remained faithful to
The Union. When they attacked the
Union he turned about and attacked
them without hesitation and with all
the yigor OF his
After the war he war among those
who supported the severest measures
OF Reconstruction" and was among
She most pronounced of the extreme
radical wing of his party. Only last
year he completed a large book the
burden of which Was q warning to
"the north" of danger from "the
south" He belle. ed, honestly no
doubt, that ''the south was capable of
regaining its old predominance in the
Union, and that it it did the southern
men would misuse such power to the
injury of the country.
Logan was a gallant and capable
IaQldier, but it cannot justly be said Of
hin that he was a statesman. But il
te8ff-and ought to be said Of him that he
was honest to the backbone, frank an(
outspoken, and if ambitious, most hon
orably SO. He was disappointed at tn,
republican defeat in 1884, and believed
that if he had been the head of tn
ticket the republicans would have won
in which, perhaps, he was not entirel
wrong. He hoped tor his party's nom
~ination i'll 1888, and, had he lived
would no doubt have made d gsIlau
l and determined fight for it.
His death removes one OF the thre
{ most prominent republican candidate!
I the other two being Messrs. Blaiu
; and Sherman. It will in some measu,
/ necessitate a recast of the republica
: forces, and will no doubt bring fol
= ward other candidates, among who.
: Senator Harrison, OF Indiana, is PEI
e haps the most prominent and deser,
5 ing.
For Gen. Logsn's seat in the sena
II there will be al eagar contentit
r among prominent republicans
d Illinois, the present legislature havi,
a considerable republican majority {
Joint ballot. The men most prominel
a ly mentioned for the place are Messr
e P~ayson, Cannon and Henderson, mel
Il bers of the present congress; Farwe
aud Raum. OF these Mr.. Payson
: by his ability and public experiene
and the great value of his services
r the country in the house of represe
al tatIves as a land reformer, the me
!, deserving of the honor.